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Authored Books

Tsang, Steve and Cheung, Olivia (2024) The Political Thought of Xi Jinping. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cheung, Olivia (2023) Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (Politics, Security and Society in Asia Pacific)

Book Chapters

Cheung, Olivia (2022) 'An East Asian Theory of Democracy.' In: Cooke, Samantha, (ed.), Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103-132. (Palgrave Studies in International Relations)

Journal Article

Cheung, Olivia (2022) 'Factional model-making in China: Party elites’ open political contention in the policy process.' The China Quarterly (251). pp. 705-725.

Tsang, Steve and Cheung, Olivia (2022) 'Has Xi Jinping made China’s political system more resilient and enduring?' Third World Quarterly, 43 (1). pp. 225-243.

Tsang, Steve and Cheung, Olivia (2021) 'Uninterrupted Rise: China’s Global Strategy According to Xi Jinping Thought.' The Asan Forum, 9 (2).

Conference or Workshop Items

Cheung, Olivia (2023) A New International Order with Asian Features? Ideas from China. In: Asian and European Perspectives on the Future of the International Order: Cooperation and Multilateralism in a New Era of Geopolitical Competition, 20 June 2023, jointly organized by the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and Consorci Universitari Menendez Pelayo Barcelona (CUIMPB), Barcelona, Spain.

Cheung, Olivia (2021) When Chinese Communist Party Elites Disagree: Factional Model-Making in Chinese Politics. In: 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, 24-27 August 2021, Leipzig University, Leipzig.

Cheung, Olivia (2019) China’s Grand Strategy: Coordinating the Belt and Road Initiative. In: “The Belt and Road Initiative @Five”, and “BRI and the Silk Road” Comprehensive Capacity-Building in the Eastern Neighbourhood and Central Asia (COMPASS) Workshop Proceedings, June 2019, University of Kent and University of Cambridge, pp. 8-10., 13 March 2019, University of Kent.

Cheung, Olivia (2018) Visualising Socialism in Postsocialist China. In: Visualising Asia: Deciphering 'Otherness' in Visual and Material Cultures, 20 September 2018, SOAS University of London, UK.

Cheung, Olivia (2018) Rural Decollectivisation in China. In: British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, 12-14 September 2018, King's College London, UK.

Cheung, Olivia (2017) Making Red Billionaire Villages: 'Line Struggle' in Post-Mao China. In: New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Meetin, 28-29 January 2017, Boston College, USA.

Book Reviews

Cheung, Olivia (2022) 'Book Review of "China's Leaders: From Mao to Now" by David Shambaugh.' Pacific Affairs, 95 (3). pp. 609-611.

Cheung, Olivia (2021) 'Book review of “Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State” by Yanzhong Huang.' South African Journal of International Affairs, 28 (3). pp. 487-488.

Cheung, Olivia (2021) 'Book review of "The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy, and Power" by Xuezhi Guo.' The China Quarterly, 246 . pp. 605-607.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Cheung, Olivia (2023) China’s New Foreign Relations Law. SOAS China Institute Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Cheung, Olivia (2023) Tianxia under Xi Jinping: Is China a revisionist or reformist power of the Liberal International Order? SOAS China Institute Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Cheung, Olivia (2021) Xi demands respect at the US-China virtual summit. East Asia Forum [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]